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What's Happening

The Learning Fellows Program—organized by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) and Educational Technologies—embeds advanced students in classes around campus. It’s a model that is rapidly changing the Dartmouth classroom experience, says the program’s director, Kes Schroer.

In his latest blog post for Inside Higher Ed, Joshua Kim discusses the Education Department's announcement about the EQUIP experiment, and shares five reasons why the program is a positive development. Kim is director of digital learning initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL).

Continued coverage of comments by Vikrant Vaze, assistant professor of engineering, in an article about how airline miscues—such as the computer glitches that grounded hundreds of thousands of passengers this summer—are now the biggest cause of flight delays in the U.S.

Quotes Dror Ben-Zeev, assistant professor of psychiatry, about a study he led that shows promising engagement with Pear Therapeutics' program Thrive, which uses a smartphone app along with medication to treat patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. "Patients with schizophrenia are traditionally considered a high risk patient population and the period immediately following hospitalization is of particularly high risk.

Today, Information Technology Services (ITS) plays its part in rolling out the Dartmouth Event Management System (EMS). The new service, which is replacing the R25 scheduling system, allows students, faculty, and staff to manage meetings, complex events, and academic courses.

EMS will help Dartmouth maximize the use of existing space by providing members of the community with an easy-to-use interface for reviewing and requesting access to rooms across campus.

Quotes Joshua Kim, director of digital learning initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), in an article that mentions Dartmouth College offers free online courses through Academic Earth and edX. Kim states that the College has opted to work with edX because it's nonprofit. "We are part of that group that believes in the promise of open education and we are doing this with the other members," says Kim.

In his latest post for Inside Higher Ed's "Technology and Learning" blog, Joshua Kim, director of digital learning initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), shares three reasons why he is skeptical of Slack—a messaging app for teams.

An article that mentions the field of artificial intelligence got its start at a conference at Dartmouth in 1956. Optimism ran high and it was believed that machines would be able to do the work of humans within 20 years.

In his latest post for Inside Higher Ed's "Technology and Learning" blog, Joshua Kim, director of digital learning initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), discusses the book Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country by Alex Cuadros.